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Cow
Bos taurus
Farm Animal
least concern
Herbivore
Cows are gentle farm animals that give us milk, meat, and leather. They are herbivores with four stomachs and spend most of their time eating grass.
Habitat
Farms and grasslands worldwide
Fun Facts
- •Cows have best friends and get stressed when they're separated!
- •Cows have four stomachs to digest grass properly.
- •A cow says 'moo' to different sounds - each moo means something different!
- •Cows produce about 6-7 gallons of milk per day!
Sounds
Cow mooing sound
call
Source: animal-sounds.org
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Artiodactyla
- family
- Bovidae
- genus
- Bos
- species
- taurus
Tags
farm
dairy
herbivore
domesticated